No More Homecoming Kings or Queens

The student government at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, adopted a gender-neutral homecoming court this year, abandoning the time-honored tradition of electing a boy as “king” and a girl as “queen.”

“Well, that’s a prom I wouldn’t want to go to,” one senior boy in the Boston area said. “Why can’t we have one night that is free of these issues? Already they [the transgender students] have changed graduation — we are going to a one-color graduation robe this year.”

Students with governing power focused on the “exclusivity” of the tradition beloved by many.

Students in each grade at Bethesda Chevy-Chase (B-CC) voted for two classmates from a ballot of finalists, according to The Washington Post. The winners from each grade were crowned at the school’s homecoming football game on Oct. 7.

“This make-believe doctrine of gender neutrality, or the openness that allows people to ‘identify’ with a gender of one’s choice, is definitely gaining momentum in the nation’s school system,” political writer and commentator Derryck Green told LifeZette.

“Now the social fetish or trend is to gender-neutralize the homecoming court, all in a bid to virtue signal how ‘open,’ ‘accepting,’ and ‘tolerant’ those who accept this silliness are,” he continued.

Still, students with governing power focused on the “exclusivity” of the tradition beloved by many.

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“It provides an opportunity for all students to be involved in something that was exclusionary,” Jacob Rains, president of the school’s Student Government Association, told The Post. “It is really not our job, especially with a gender-neutral and transgender population at B-CC, to tell people that boys have to be kings and girls have to be queens. Who are we to put people into those categories?”

Some might argue they are the supposed leaders of the school elected by all of their classmates, entrusted to create an educational atmosphere equitable to everyone — not just those already supported by an influential, aggressively lobbied agenda.

The kids who might be made anxious or uncomfortable by a prom “king and king” apparently have no one inside the school walls looking out for them.

The student body was not a part of this decision at B-CC. The change came in a 4 to 1 vote last week among officers of the school-wide Student Government Association, according to The Post’s report.

Responding to an Instagram post by Rains about the decision on Instagram, some students expressed their frustration.

“Wow, this really makes sense?” one person wrote. “Really disappointed that students couldn’t vote on this or something.”

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B-CC has an active LGBT club called Spectrum — no doubt critical in changing homecoming tradition.

Several resources are available to transgendered kids who want to change the prom. The American Civil Liberties Union has a page on its website devoted to LGBT kids entitled, “Know Your Prom Rights!”

“If your school won’t allow you to attend prom with the date of your choice, tell them about Aaron’s case, Fricke v. Lynch [ a 1980 case in which a federal judge ruled that a high school boy could bring another boy to prom under the First Amendment],” the ACLU says. “If they still don’t honor your rights, contact your local ACLU affiliate or the ACLU’s LGBT Project.”

Sometimes the First Amendment is touted and sometimes Title IX is touted to make LGBT gains with youth — whichever gets the job done of stripping millions of children of a traditional way of life.

“It’s bad enough during the school day — we have more and more confused kids wandering the halls,” said the Boston-area student of his own experience with LGBT students. “We have one kid in our school who is a boy one week and a girl the next. It’s so confusing not only for him, but for us, watching him try to figure this out. But our feelings about this — being uncomfortable or whatever — don’t matter.”

The kids who might be made anxious or uncomfortable by a prom “king and king” apparently have no one inside the school walls looking out for them.

Adults like Caitlyn Jenner, the late Alexis Arquette, and others, suffer from a form of mental illness which shouldn’t be celebrated or encouraged, said Green. “People shouldn’t champion or force gender disorder onto young children or teenagers. It dangerously adds to the confusion associated with biological development and maturation that already exists, particularly during puberty,” he said.

LGBT students who continuously raise a rallying cry for justice are happy about making institutional changes for the few that affect the many.

“For me it’s a really big deal because I identify as a transgender male, and to have this new gender-neutral homecoming court in place really makes it feel like I don’t need to go around anything to fit in,” student Camern Pinkus, a biological female who identifies as a transgender male, told the local NBC affiliate. Pinkus was elected to the homecoming court.

“B-CC is a very activist school and it seems that we’re always kind of in the front of change,” John Molyneaux, another student elected to homecoming royalty, told the same news station.

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The news about the homecoming changes went out by text message and through a school-wide email, where Rains also mentioned another development, according to The Post: The school is opening another gender-neutral bathroom on the third floor.

“School officials that force this madness onto children, and call it a social ‘good,’ are guilty of child abuse, in my opinion,” asserted Green. “What more does one need to see or know to understand how destructive the ideas, thoughts, and actions of leftism are — especially dealing with their radical, sexualized agenda?”